Marked for Ezechiel Oumar
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad15 Feb 2027
Ezechiel Oumar damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” US Moursal may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market15 Feb 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around US Moursal they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market15 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Feb 2027
Renaissance left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I watch every US Moursal game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aiglons runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ezechiel Oumar damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market8 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market8 Feb 2027
The deal that would have taken Issa Doungous to Aiglons has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to US Moursal with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Market8 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marius Doungous will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around US Moursal the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa Ngaradoumbe is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match6 Feb 2027
A 1‑0 win over AS DGSSIE, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Moussa Ngaradoumbe was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.37. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
“I did not go to AS PSI to sit and watch. I want to come back to US Moursal and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 23 matches say the rest.
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Crisis
Squad1 Feb 2027
Ezechiel Oumar damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A one-man rearguard from Ali Doungous
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market1 Feb 2027
Issa Doungous hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Issa Doungous: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” US Moursal have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market1 Feb 2027
AS PSI paid $38.0K and US Moursal took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match30 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market1 Feb 2027
Aiglons are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. US Moursal will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
Ezechiel Oumar damages knee ligaments — 37 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market25 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Marius Doungous again, and this time the name on the line is AS PSI. US Moursal are listening politely and promising nothing.
Match23 Jan 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between US Moursal and Galactik, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Moussa Bechir was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.50 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Marked 8.15 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match23 Jan 2027
A 3‑3 draw with Galactik leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Upbeat
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.03 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad26 Oct 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 3‑2 win over Galactik, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Match24 Oct 2026
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Moussa Ngaradoumbe falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ezechiel Oumar has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Issa Doungous
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at US Moursal, and 0 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from AS PSI for Marius Doungous was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Elect Sport have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Oumar Ndoram. The answer from US Moursal has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at US Moursal has been clear about where Brahim Ngaradoumbe stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abdramane Mbaiguedem and US Moursal agree another 3 years.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Moussa Bechir was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Ezechiel Oumar again, and this time the name on the line is CotonTchad. US Moursal are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Brahim Ngaradoumbe commits to US Moursal for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Djibrine Moustapha falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.